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Post on the LSE’s Brexit blog: “Going it alone on trade is like bringing a chocolate spoon to a knife fight”

I’ve reworked one of my twitter threads on trade into a post for the LSE’s Brexit blog. I argue that the kind of Brexit being advocated both on the left and the right of British politics is unrealistic given the way international trade works in the modern world. The public are being missold Brexit by both camps. Read the whole thing on the LSE’s site, here.

The NI economy is not doing well but Bombardier is pretty much the jewel in its crown so to speak. The article argues that The South of Ireland might not agree to reunification even though the North might want it – like the Cyprus case.